Beyond Statism and Deliberation: Questioning Ecological Democracy through Eco-Anarchism and Cosmopolitics

Jacob Smessaert and Giuseppe Feola

Environmental Values, 2023, vol. 32, issue 6, 765-793

Abstract: This paper decentres the predominance of statism and deliberation in ecological democracy scholarship. We use insights from eco-anarchism and cosmopolitics to identify democratic configurations beyond capitalism and its entanglement with the nation-state. These configurations are premised on the idea that sustainability transformation not only implies a move beyond capitalism and the nation-state, but might comprise their dismantling. We propose and apply an analytical framework encompassing the dimensions actors, praxis and processes and institution(s) to contrast these three political theories and bring forward a diversity of democratic praxes that revolve around the generation of autonomy and the building of multispecies political communities. Finally, we discuss transformation possibilities from within the capitalist nation-state and propose research directions for post-statist, autonomous and diverse ecological democracies.

Keywords: Sustainability transformation; diverse political praxis; autonomy; multispecies democracy; capitalism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.3197/096327123X16759401706533

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